青春期的科里·马修斯在成长过程中面对朋友、家庭和学校的问题。

　　根据美国历史上首批进入太空的宇航员的真实故事改编而成，他们是阿兰·舍帕德、戈斯·格瑞森、约翰·格婪尼、斯高特·卡本特、高登·库伯等，共七位英雄。影片详细地描绘了美国太空计划的诞生过程以及第一批航天员诞生的历史故事。

Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and taken to the hospital. Some of the men didn't want to get involved, fearing they might be blamed, because she was white, but do so anyway. Almost immediately everyone suspects they are to blame. When Hester's politically influential mother Doris finds out what really happened, she fearing a scandal, forces her daughter to blame the men who rescued her, of raping and beating her. It's up to detective Curt Maddox, to find out what really happened, and their Hawaiian lawyer to do the impossible. Convince a white court of law, that they are innocent.

A large, black, four-poster bed, possessed by a demon, is passed from owner to owner. In the 15th century, a knight killed the demon, but the demon's blood splashed onto the bed, causing the possession. Those who come into contact with the bed are frequently consumed by it (victims are pulled into what is apparently a large chamber of digestive fluids beneath the sheets).
A running commentary or chorus is supplied by the ghost — if that is the correct word — of an artist (who would appear to be Aubrey Beardsley, though this is never stated directly) trapped behind a painting on the wall.